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PROTEST OF CONDI RICE IN SAN FRANCISCO

by Bernie Fox
Protest of Condoleezza Rice in S.F. at Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, May 27, 2005 with photos.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in San Francisco Friday, May 27, 2005 to speak at a Commonwealth Club event at Davies Symphony Hall.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism) Coalition organized and sponsored a demonstration outside the hall.

A spirited crowd of 100's was there to:

..... protest her visit with a loud demonstration to SAY NO! to war and occupation in Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, Afghanistan and everywhere.

..... stop the U.S. threats and intervention against Cuba, Venezuela, Korea, Philippines, Syria, Iran and other countries.

..... protest the War at Home! Hands off Social Security!

Powerful speeches were given by ANSWER activists, Code Pink and representatives of many communities including organized labor, Bayview-Hunters Point, LGBTI/Queer, and more.

Some people from the ANSWER Coalition and from Code Pink got inside Davies Hall to voice their opposition to Rice's appearance and were arrested by police.

Money for Jobs, Education, Health Care, Affordable Housing... NOT FOR WAR!

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

all photos by Bernie Fox

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§Mother and child protesters
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§Attendees looking down on protesters
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Note the police officer on the left getting instructions by phone from the "top".
§Street Protesters, speakers in the background
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§Protester being moved along by police officer
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§Speaker from Bayview/Hunters Point
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§Street Protesters
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Fereuza Gifford, Great-Grandmother, U.S. Merchant Marine Veteran
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§Police keeping order in the streets
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by Socialist
While the torture scenes are excellent and make for good street theater, the glaring omission of Condi Rice's participation in the 9/11 Inside Job is inexcusable. She stated on CNN, and it was reported on Pacifica radio stations, such as KPFA, in the spring of 2002, that it was she who told then "mayor" Willie Brown to stay off airplanes 8 hours before he was scheduled to fly on 9/11/01.

By now, we all have done our homework and know what should have been obvious to every single opponent of Bush and his wars: That the 9/11/01 crime was an Inside Job, a Reichstag Fire, perpetrated for the same reason as the Nazis burned down their government building, the Reichstag, to promote fascism at home and war abroad so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class.

We know our excellent air defense which could have stopped all of the plane crashes was paralyzed by planned war games on 9/11/01; that the US Air Force, a bastion of religious reaction and anti-women horrors, guided those planes via automatic pilot; that there were no hijackers on those planes; that the admitted phony names given to non-existent hijackers were all CIA fronts; that 9 of the so-called hijackers are alive; that the Twin Towers and Building 7, which was not hit by any plane, were brought down by construction explosives in seconds, demonstrating almost no resistance; that the Pentagon was damaged by construction explosives and that the plane over Pennsylvania was shot down by the US military.

We knew this was staged on the day it happened as our excellent air defense could easily have stopped all of it, and the air space over New York and Washington, DC is heavily guarded. We knew that only the US capitalist class has the motive, means and opportunity to commit such a heinous crime of mass murder of 3,000 people, which they do all the time around the world, including right now in Iraq, to maximize their profits.

We have all read Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert, The New Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions both by David Ray Griffin; 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley; Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid and Body of Secrets by James Bamford.

This was the CIA's Operation Northwords realized, a 1962 plan approved by the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, to carry out such agent provocateur actions as destroying a US airplane and blaming it on Cuba so as to have an excuse to invade Cuba.

9/11/01 was an Inside Job perpetrated by the US Air Force and the CIA, and in charge of it all was VP Dick Cheney, with then security advisor Condolezza Rice, Pres George Bush and War Secretary Rumsfeld all active participants in the plan.

There is nothing eloquent about Nazi Rice, contrary to another posting on this website. She talks like a child, has absolutely nothing good or intelligent to say; and contrary to her statement at the senate hearings, she has NO INTEGRITY whatsoever. Condolezza Rice is a war criminal and an outright fascist. When the world is finally able to hold another Nuremberg Trial, Rice, Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld will certainly be primary defendants. Since we are all opposed to punishment, what needs to be done with this gang is to put them all to work at physical labor jobs such as restaurant work and housecleaning, and if they cannot do that, then they can live on the same Social Security that the average retired restaurant worker and maid receive.

It is long overdue that we have a labor movement that puts an end to the private profit system that makes such heinous criminals as Rice, Rumsfield, Bush and Cheney possible.

As a fan of our tax-supported symphony and symphony hall, this was an outrageous desecration of our beautiful symphony hall. I hope our peace movement can re-consecrate it with a celebration of international culture and peace in the near future. Considering the City of San Francisco allowed this travesty to take place, they should allow us to celebrate peace without paying rent. After all, symphony all belongs to us all who love and honor life, which only peaceniks can do.
by alj
Protesters dressed as Abu Ghraib prison abuse detainees interrupted US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's speech in San Francisco on Friday.

Shortly after Rice started speaking, three protesters stood up wearing black robes and black hoods, with their arms outstretched at their sides, an apparent reference to US abuse of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

The crowd applauded as the protesters, shouting their opposition to the war in Iraq, were taken from the hall.

Rice seemed undisturbed by the interruption.

"In Baghdad, Kabul and soon in Beirut, they too will be able to speak their minds," she said.

About a hundred protesters demonstrated outside Davies Symphony Hall where Rice spoke during a long weekend trip to San Francisco

Difficulties

On Iraq, Rice said that country's democracy "is not going to look like the United States of America, but it's not going to look like Saddam's Iraq. And thank God for that, because it was time to get that monster out of the centre of Baghdad."

She acknowledged that Iraq's fledging democratic government had difficulties and that it was not unusual for historical changes to result in violence.

But she added that to date, the Baghdad leadership had not made a compromise "as bad as the one in 1789 that made my ancestors three-fifths of a man, so let's be humble about what they're going through".

Rice was referring to a constitutional compromise in which three-fifths of a state's slaves were counted in deciding the state's representation in Congress and other issues.

Asked about the prospects for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, she said President Bush thought that step could be taken only after success had been achieved.

"It would not be a good thing to leave before this job is finished," she said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/043FC7AD-C29E-416E-956A-58DCEC55D610.htm
by The Devil and George Warmonger Bush (Condoleezza The Big Oil Skeeza (Whore)@666 Doing Jobs For The Bush Sleaza.org)
Condoleezza the Big Oil Skeeza (Whore) lying for the Bush Sleaza as ususal. Uncle Satan's (Bush) Call Girl Oils San Francisco For His Assholiness George Warmonger Bush and Dubya's Oil For Torture and Bombs Program in The Middle East.
by against the war
The last post is both racist and sexist, basically calling Condi Rice a (black street) ho. It's also anti-sex-worker if you think about it a little deeper. Attacking Condi Rice's positions is what is needed such as her quip about free speech. Unfortunately many leftists don't have the brains to do it intelligently.


by reality check
How is the post re: Condi as a prostitute racist or sexist?

There's no reference to her race at all in the post. One could say that Gale Norton is a prostitute for mining and logging companies also, regardless of her whiteness. And Condi HAS prostituted herself for the Bush regime, oil cartel, and the war mongers.

It has nothing to do with sex workers. If she fucked George Bush to help him deal with his overly agressive need to please his father, maybe she'd be doing a public service. But she's not. Like Rumsfeld and Powell, she sold her soul and her mind, and parts of her body, for empire.

Sex workers ought to picket her for giving prostitution a bad name.
by Frances
It's sexist because powerful women are often referred to as whores or bitches to remind us all that men ultimately hold the power. It's a shameful way to refer to someone, no matter who they are. It's a simple minded, easy attack and really shows that by using this kind of attack you are no more enlightened than she is. Men are never referred to in this way, there is still some shred of dignity left to them. With women, it often comes back to their sexuality, and people who refer to them in this way apparently see women as beings who may enter into the "real" world of men, until they do something upsetting, and then they are reminded that all they are good for is sex, so go back to your place bitch. The fact that you cannot see it as sexist is a good clue that you might want to do some thinking about how you see women. Can you imagine referring to GW as a "gigolo" as a way to insult him? It's so unlikely that it sounds ridiculous. Don't you think? So, why would you refer to CR as as a "whore"? It doesn't even make any sense.
by Socialist
The filthy, sexist, racist comments made above demonstrate a complete lack of political thinking and have no place on this website. As one writer above states, no man would ever be referred to in sexual terms, no matter how evil, and George Bush is another Hitler, as is his entire administration, including Condolezza Rice. The world of politics is not male and it is not white; it is our world, it concerns how our tax dollars are spent; it concerns our very lives. As to women, the good Democrats Madeline Albright (war criminal Clinton's secretary of state who thought the murder of Iraqi children was worth the price of oil) and Janet Reno (war criminal Clinton's attorney general, from Waco to refusing to support Mumia Abu-Jamal to any and all of the rest of the reactionary agenda of the US capitalist class, including the death penalty), none of them were attacked in racist and sexual terms. The writers of the above comments clearly have nothing to say politically, and thus have no place on this website.

As to prostitution, the most vicious exploitation of mostly workingclass women (and sometimes men), where people allow themselve to be raped for money or goods, being a prostitute may be legal, but the soliciting and promotion of prostitution should remain illegal. The goal of socialists always is to eliminate prostitution, and to the extent that it is not, there is no socialism.

What remains now is the politics. The lack of broad condemnation of Condolezza Rice's admitted knowledge of hte 9/11 Inside Job with her warning to Willie Brown is inexcusable. I certainly hope everyone has read the basic books as described above. This is Nazi USA, no different from Nazi Germany, which perpetrated the Reichstag Fire. 9/11/01 was another Reichstag Fire. In fact, as Wesley Tarpley demonstrates in his excellent book, most terrorism is perpetrated by the state. Another important point in his book is that the reason Bush overthrew his own puppet, Saddam Hussein, was because Hussein wanted euros for his oil, not dollars. I suggest the people making the racist, sexist comments on this website read all of the books above. It might interest all the white men on this website that there are lots of women and lots of nonwhite men and women commenting on and reading the articles on this website. In fact, women are 53% of the population and we will not stand for trash.

I think it should also be pointed out that KPFA was not allowed inside our taxpayer funded symphony hall for this Nazi's speech. In other words, freedom of the press is opposed by the Nazi Bush administration.
by reality check
"Socialist" wrote:

"The writers of the above comments clearly have nothing to say politically, and thus have no place on this website."

Thanks for standing up for Stalinism!

Just because you missed my point doesn't mean I have nothing political to say. Rice, Rumsfeld, Albright, Powell, Reno, Clinton, et al are all prostitutes. Black and white, male and female, they sold themselves body and soul for empire. Other than in Bubba Clinton's case, it has nothing to do with sex.


by reality check
"Socialist" wrote:

"The writers of the above comments clearly have nothing to say politically, and thus have no place on this website."

Thanks for standing up for Stalinism!

Just because you missed my point doesn't mean I have nothing political to say. Rice, Rumsfeld, Albright, Powell, Reno, Clinton, et al are all prostitutes. Black and white, male and female, they sold themselves body and soul for empire. Other than in Bubba Clinton's case, it has nothing to do with sex.


by peace and love
The filthy image at the top of this page with the banner "Fuck War" has nothing political to say and has no place on this website! How dare you expose our innocent eyes to such harmful and upsetting language! The concept of fucking war is too vile to contemplate. Fuck for Peace! No more war fucking!!
by jh
Actually, often when talking about war, or power, it comes back to mens sexual inadequacy, "starting a war, he must have a small dick" "he must be compensating for something" "he must not be getting any". Sexuality is a major part of our lives and so it is often equated to almost every other facet of life. A women shows some backbone, she's frigid, a man gets a sports car, he has a small dick. No double standard... Sexism exists, but it's not present here. Sorry.
And if you listen closer to the things people say, you'll often hear men's actions being refereed to as "whoring".
by JH
Where do people get off getting angry that Condi is being called a whore, (and yes, I think she has whored herself out and sold out her people, both black and female) then in the same breath go and call GWB Hitler. I hate GWB as much as anyone, but really, Hitler? Every time someone does something other people see as mean or unjust, someone plays the Hitler or Nazi card. by doing that we dilute the MAJOR INJUSTICE that was perpetrated on the Jews, Gays and People of Color by the Nazi party. GWB is evil, but he is a different kind of evil.
by Stacie Helphand (dgoblin6 [at] aol.com)
The difference between A. Hitler and GW Bush is mostly a matter of degree. Give our guy enough time, and he'll murder more than the Nazis managed to do; they, after all, had SOMEONE standing in opposition!
by The Devil and George Warmonger Bush (Condoleeza the Big Oil Skeeza (Whore)@666 Uncle Satan (Bush) is my Pimp.org)
Rice is still Uncle Satan's Call Girl. And Uncle Satan (Bush) is Her Pimp. Pimping her Lip Service off to Oil Cartels, the War Machine, and Drug Cartels. And they do PAY for The Bush Bitch's Lip Service don't they???? Just as they PAY for Lip Service in the Presstitution Rackets (Called The Corporate Mass Media. Or LIP Service from Uncle Satan's Call Boys Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Perele, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Mueller, etc.
by Turn the other cheek
Maybe everybody would rather argue about the proper way to criticize Rice than talk about 9-11 being an inside job because either they haven't read the books or they just "don't want to go there."

Even in "liberal" circles there are plenty of people who don't want to believe that the difference between the the world as it is presented and as it really is, is that great.

I've had better luck trying to get people to even think about the complicity of some elements of the government if I could get them to sit down for a video presentation.

http://www.reopen911.org/freedvd.php


PS No disrespect intended towards any sex workers, our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, or even any Christian sect by the use of the phrase "turn the other cheek."
by The Black Commentator



Please note that this on-line magazine refers to Condi as "The Devil's Handmaiden."
by reader
whoever is posting 'reopen911' . . .

that site is bogus - it pushes the least credible claims, like the idea that NO COMMERCIAL JETS hit the WTC and a missile hit the Pentagon. These claims don't help the 9/11 movement, they hurt it. Christopher Bollyn, promoted by that site, is also associated with an antisemitic publication (Barnes Review/ AFP) in yet another way to smear the 9/11 movement efforts.

To understand disinfo, see:

http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html
by Not an anti-Semite
Thank you for supporting the general position that 9-11 involved the complicity of some elements of the government.

I can understand the arguement that disinformation can be planted so that it can be exposed later and thereby discredit other evidence by association. This method is part of the modus operandi of our common enemy, as exemplified in the Dan Rather case where one forged document was used as an excuse by the MSM to drop the whole issue of Bush's non service in the military.

I noticed that along with a photo of a small hole in the Pentagon's wall with very small pieces of aircraft wreckage painted with Boeing green primer -- Boeing also makes aircraft for the military ; ) -- laying in front of it, your website had a long list of "bogus" websites. One of the few 9-11 sites that appears to pass muster with oilempire.us is http://911research.wtc7.net/ . I make this judgement because oilempire.us links to an article on this site which also calls any statement that no commercial passenger plane hit the Pentagon disinformation.

I considered linking to http://911research.wtc7.net/ instead of http://www.reopen911.org/freedvd.php because of its conservative approach as to what constitutes evidence. I agree that positive evidence (such as Larry Silverstein's statement that he suggested, and the NY Fire Department agreed, to "pull" WTC building #7) is superior to negative evidence (such as the less than expected mass of wreckage and the apparently undersized rotor at the Pentagon).

For some people the speed with with the PNAC's call for a "New Pearl Harbor" is answered after the Bush Junta takes power is evidence enough. Other people need to be hit over the head. I went with the reopen911.org website because of the free dvd offer and the greater impact video has over pictures, printed matter and boring lectures, such as Griffin's noble C-Span effort. And in our bourgeois culture, who could pass up such a deal?

"No Plane at the Pentagon" is not the whole of the case made on the dvd: Oil - Another Reason(http://www.reopen911.org/video/cte_21.mov).
by blech
The problem with the "No Plane at the Pentagon" isnt just that it relies of rather sketchy evidence its also that thousands of people in the DC area saw the plane. For people in DC who saw the plane or know people who saw the plane the use of such obviously a crazy conspiracy theory isnt likely to win people over to your other views. Many of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are based on the false logic that "experts" predicting what would happen due to a fire in the WTC or a plane hitting the WTC can provide reasonable answers based off of simplistic models but few similar examples to study. If I saw a car hit a house and set it on fire and then went to an expert and asked them how likely it would be for a car hitting a house to start a fire and they said very unlikely the logical conclusion isnt that no car hit the house.
by You've got to be kidding
Order the FREE video at http://www.reopen911.org/freedvd.php and laugh yourself silly.

Or if you don't think its funny, then you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you've struck a blow against the purveyors of disinformation where it hurts -- right in the wallet.
by JONES
I REALLY DONT CARE WHAT ANYBODY SAY ABOUT CONDI RICE, SHE IS THE ONE ... IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT THAN YOU DEAL WITH IT PEROID... I WILL NOT BE SLEEPLESS THANK YOU... AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS AMEN..
by JONES
I REALLY DONT CARE WHAT ANYBODY SAY ABOUT CONDI RICE, SHE IS THE ONE ... IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT THAN YOU DEAL WITH IT PEROID... I WILL NOT BE SLEEPLESS THANK YOU... AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS AMEN..
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